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Metaphor

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A metaphor is a trope, or a figure of speech, that directly refers to one thing by mentioning features of another one; an object, or an idea, is viewed as a metaphor which offers people new ways of examining ideas and viewing the world.

ELLA 2.0

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ELLA stands for "Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis", and 2.0 points to the fact that offline signs are followed through to their online dimensions. ELLA 2.0 is, thus, online-offline Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Analysis.

Linguistic landscape

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Linguistic landscape is an object of sociolinguistic analysis and comprises publicly visible language samples displayed in a certain area.

Conlang: Fictional Languages and Online Communities

Article
Beau Swierstra
16/05/2020
12 minutes to read

Conlangs are getting more popular, especially because of the popularity of series like Game of Thrones. In shows, constructed languages are an important factor to create a storyworld. But fans speak conlangs also in reallife communities.

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Coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes

Article
Savina Karneva
07/12/2019
21 minutes to read

In this article, we analyze three different coffee places in Tilburg as linguistic landscapes in order to illustate hidden indexical meanings found in them, which point to their history, their present, and their future with customers.

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Ok boomer and the 'generation war'

Article
Leonie Milder
04/12/2019
14 minutes to read

By now, everyone has heard of it. The term ‘ok boomer’ has gone viral. The term comes from 'Baby Boomer', a name for the generation born between 1946 and 1964. Now, it means something completely different as the 'generation war' rages on.

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The linguistic landscape of Maastricht

Article
Joël Eduard Nicholas Grassère
26/11/2019
11 minutes to read

Old factory signs, preserved French hotel names and signs in the local dialect paint Maastricht's rich linguistic landscape. An analysis of three examples showcases how the city's history and current developments are embedded in public signs.

"Window of culture" at the Junho Medical Center
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Asian Culture and Commodity in the City Centre of Tilburg

Article
Marit van Dijck
20/11/2019
13 minutes to read

This paper is focussed on Asian culture and commodity in the city centre of Tilburg in the form of linguistic and semiotic signs. Therefore we found three shops that represent important aspects of life: health, beauty and nutrition. 

Political polarization Ghent linguistic landscape protest from the left
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Political polarization in Ghent: a "radical" linguistic landscape

Article
Claudia Gerards
13/11/2019
32 minutes to read

With a shift towards the far-right, politics in Flanders have become rather polarized. In Ghent's linguistic landscape, we see counter noise coming from the left. What does this tell us about Ghent in the context of Flemish politics?

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Nudging in the Healthy Direction

Article
Noor W.
28/10/2019
15 minutes to read

What is the health hype 'nudging' in the linguistic landscape? How is it practised at Tilburg University? And does it really work?